Dandelion Mural

My bedroom is still a hot mess.  I'm on the hunt for a dresser, the walls are bare and the bed is really just a mattress on the floor (on a budget, folks).  At least I took the time to paint the walls.  Midnight Gray is painted on two walls and on a third wall I used the Midnight Gray paint to create a dandelion mural.

Inspired by this post from Pretty Handy Girl.

Mirror Make-Over

White mirror - $1.99 at Goodwill.

I used scrapbook paper, paint, and glitter to doctor it up.

Reminds me of Kelly Rae's mirror a bit.

Yes!

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Bedroom Colors

I'm still playing with the Sherwin Williams Color Visualizer I came across the other day.  This time I'm thinking about bedroom paint options.  I want calm, cool and clean.

Option 1: Bathe Blue

Option 2:  Grandview (more green)

Option 3: Classic French Gray (my favorite so far).  

I want to decorate the bedroom with stark white and small pops of color.  I'm also planning on following this DIY Tutorial for a dandelion mural! Because of the dandelion I'm leaning towards option 3 at the moment.  Very breezy, simple and beachy.  Love it.

 

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Sherwin-Williams Color Visualizer: Living Room & Kitchen

I've been playing with this free online program for about an hour now.  Sherwin-Williams lets you upload a picture of a room, use selection tools to label and identify walls, and then create a virtual make-over with different color palettes.

Here's a picture taken from the living room facing the kitchen/front door. I definitely want blue walls in the living room but I'm having a hard time deciding what to do with the kitchen/entrance area (please ignore that hideous wood panel in the center, I'll have to figure out what to do with that later).  Here are some options I was playing with...

Option 1:  Liquid Blue & Fun Yellow (very bold...and too much)

Option 2: Spa & Cucumber (getting closer...)

Option 3: Liquid Blue & Narcissus (almost there...)

I was pretty settled on something very similar to Option 3 because I like the clean, neutral feel of "Narcissus" and I think I like the placement of the neutral tone in contrast to the bright blue is nice.  I am still undecided on the brightness of the blue.  I don't want to go too bright but I also want it to be recognizable as blue.

Option 4: Tame Teal & Narcissus (my favorite so far...)

I am very open to feedback & suggestions so please leave those comments!

Paint.

I've been searching and searching for my paint colors and I keep coming back to the same soft blue palette.  I found this post  on House of Turquoise this morning and it only reaffirmed my thoughts....